Visit Number 1

Assessment Number One

 A Paragraph by Gaelen Frink

Eighth Grade English

Pine Point School

December 20, 2010

           
            (TS)On my first visit to the WARM shelter in Westerly I talked to Joy Cordio, who is the Volunteer Coordinator, she told me about how the WARM shelter works. She told me that there are two buildings, one of them is an administrative office and the other building is living quarters and the kitchen with an eating area. Nineteen people live at the warm shelter at one time, thirteen men and six women. While they are there they have to attend budget/money handling and literacy classes. The WARM shelter wants to expand because they received a grant for 1.3 million dollars, but they were denied the permits to build because the surrounding neighbors petitioned for the permits not to be given. They did this because of NIMBY, NIMBY stands for Not In My Back Yard. The neighbors think that with the renovations more homeless will be near the neighborhood and this could increase crime rate. Joy said that they appealed to a higher court and they were going to the next round. If they win that round they will break ground in March. When the renovations are complete there will be six-one bedroom apartments and two-two bedroom apartments.From just going to the Warm shelter I saw that people need help and this organization does the helping.